Leslei Hazlett, senior analyst at the the Governor's Office of Planning and Budgeting, said just 30 percent of the state's population is native.

Many of the rest of the more than 11 1/2 million people have poured in from New York, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey and Michigan, according to Hazlett.

New York and Ohio have been the top two states of origin of Florida's in- migrants.

Hazlett said newcomers from Georgia and Texas tend to settle in North Florida while Ohioans go primarly to Southwest Florida. New Yorkers overwhelmingly prefer Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, although recently more are settling farther north in Martin County, she said.

Studies by the Office of Planning and Budgeting show that seven counties -- Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Orange, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Duval -- will account for 54 percent of the state's population by the year 2000.

Eighty percent of the state's growth is expected to be in coastal counties. The fastest-growing small counties between 1980 and 2000 are expected to be: Osceola, 213 percent in that time frame; Hernando, 199 percent; Flagler, 182 percent; Charlotte, 128 percent; Citrus and Collier, 124 percent each; St. Lucie, 120 percent; Marion, 106 percent; and Seminole, 102 percent.

The top state destinations for out-migration between 1983-84 were Georgia, Texas, New York, California and North Carolina.

New residents are expected to continue flocking to the Sunshine State. By 1990, according to the planning and budgeting office, 685 persons a day, or 250,000 a year, will arrive to take up residence.

Between 1980 and 2000, the number of new jobs created each year is expected to average 200,000.

The payroll for those jobs also is increasing, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1972, payrolls in the state totaled $12.9 billion. That had swollen to $43.6 billion by 1982.

As Florida grows, it's getting older.

In 1980, 17.3 percent of the population was 65 or older. By the year 2000, that's expected to climb to 21 percent.

The fastest growing segment of the state's population is the 85-and-older category, which is expected to increase 219 percent between 1980 and 2000.

Residents 75 and older will increase 143 percent in the same time period, the planning office predicted.

Elderly citizens contribute strongly to the state's economy. The planning and budgeting office said Social Security payments and other elements of the ''mailbox economy'' in 1985 totaled $23 billion.

In Central Florida counties, residents 65 and older make up anywhere from a little more than 11 percent to as much as 24 percent of the population. According to the Office of Planning and Budgeting, the breakdown as of April 1, 1986, was:

-- Brevard County, 16 percent;

-- Indian River County, 24 percent;

-- Marion County, 20 percent;

-- Orange County, 12 percent;

-- Osceola County, 18 percent;

-- Polk County, 15.6 percent;

-- Seminole County, 11.2 percent;

-- Volusia County, 24 percent.

The slowest-growing age group in the state between 1980 and 2000 is expected to be the 1-17 category.

Foreign-born members of the population have been growing, as well. In 1970, that group totaled 8 percent of the population. In 1980, that had grown to 11 percent.

The typical Floridian, according to the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research, is white (84 percent), and female (52 percent).

The median age in the state is 36.7 years, according to Sales and Marketing Management's 1986 Survey of Buying Power.

Taxable retail sales in the state in 1985 totaled $89.7 billion, according to the Florida Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Tourism has always been a major factor in Florida's economy and that's not expected to change, despite diversification into manufacturing businesses. The governor's office projects nearly 39 million tourists a year visiting the state in 1990.

Agriculture also remains a strong sector of the economy.

Ronald S. Lawrence, of the Florida Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, noted that the market value of agricultural products sold in 1982 totaled more than $3.5 billion.